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Battlefield 3: The Kotaku Review
Spurts. I’m writing this in short bursts at the keyboard, stopping every sentence or two to swivel in my chair slightly, turn a little toward the television and pick up a controller. A, A, A. I press the Xbox 360’s green face button three times and wait. Sometimes the message pops up immediately: “You have…
By Brian Crecente Published October 31, 2011 -
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Hori’s TAC3 Brings a Mouse and (Tiny) Keyboard to the PS3
Play a first-person shooter on a PC and you get the precision of a mouse. Play a first-person shooter on a console and you get the precision of a small plastic thumbstick, which is nowhere near as precise as a mouse. For years hardware manufacturers have tried to bridge this gap, coming up with all…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 -
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Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One: The Kotaku Review
Last year, I gave a friend of mine Enslaved because I’d loved the asymmetrical partnership in Ninja Theory’s post-apocalyptic action game. After he’d finished, he said to me that he’d had a hard time going back to other games because it suddenly dawned on him how lonely those experiences were. Ratchet & Clank: All 4…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 27, 2011 -
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In the Great Indoors, I Like to ‘Bag It Up
It arrived a week ago. I put it on and zipped up and saw myself in the full-length mirror, looking like the bastard offspring of Barney and Gumby, or scientist victim No. 4 from John Carpenter’s The Thing. Mummified in polyester, I marshaled my intestinal fortitude to confront the very first thought I had when…
By Owen Good Published October 21, 2011 -
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Batman: Arkham City: The Kotaku Review
Batman: Arkham City, like other Game of the Year contenders that are in its league, should be praised both for what it does as a video game and what it does for video games. It descends, evolved, from video game classics like Super Mario and Metal Gear. It offers some of the most exciting and…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2011 -
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A Legendary World of Warcraft Mouse for More Mundane Hands
I’ve been rolling and scrolling with a SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse on and off since 2008, scoffing at the baby hands of visitors that complained my pointing device was just too big. Turns out they might have been onto something. SteelSeries recently introduced the Legendary Edition of their World of Warcraft MMO…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2011 -
ReviewsTake Your Console Games on the Road With the GAEMS G155
Most of you are probably like me. You get a console, you plug it into a big TV, maybe a surround sound system as well, and that’s where it stays. Forever. Some of you, though, are nomads. You’re always on the move. Your consoles will move from the living room to one bedroom to another,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2011 -
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NBA 2K12: The Kotaku Review
Midway through an early season Hornets-Heat contest the screen cuts to a promotion telling me Friday night, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers take on the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center. Sounds like a good game, I think to myself. What time is that on? 7:30 p.m., the screen tells me. Two days ago in real…
By Owen Good Published October 12, 2011 -
ReviewsRage: The Kotaku Review
It doesn’t really hit me until about half way through the game. I’ve been spending so much time worrying over the trick of staying alive that I haven’t notice just how insignificant I am. It’s not until I’m sent on another armed errand, off to save a general from a federal prison, that I realize…
By Brian Crecente Published October 11, 2011 -
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Dark Souls: The Kotaku Review
There’s a moment early in Demon’s Souls, immediately following the game’s first major battle, in which the player must sprint from one end of a castle bridge to another. The looming Red Dragon of Boletarian Palace repeatedly strafes that cobblestone walkway with a fiery blast of breath, an attack that will easily decimate a young,…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 10, 2011 -
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The Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Albino Looks More Like a Mass Effect Battleship Than a Gaming Mouse
I use my PC almost as much as I use my lungs. I work ten hours a day on it, and when I’m not working on it, I’m sending emails, curating Facebook or watching videos of cats. I also, from time to time, play games on it. Meaning the mouse under my hand had better…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 7, 2011 -
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KEF’s T205 Surround Sound Speakers Are $1,800 Worth of Audio in a 35 Millimeter Package
No, that’s not my beautiful house in the picture above, with its color coordinated pillows, strategically scattered magazines, and perfectly misplaced popcorn, but with the low profile KEF T205 Surround Sound Speaker System in place it sure sounds like it. The KEF lifestyle photograph taken inside my modest apartment would feature scattered shipping boxes, various…
By Mike Fahey Published October 3, 2011 -
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Subtle Branding, Sensory Overload; This is What I Want in Modern Warfare 3 Earbuds
I’m not the sort of gamer who likes to wear his playing predilections on his sleeve. When I wear or use something game-branded, I prefer the enigmatic over the brazen. Give me a Meat Bun tee over a Hot Topics design, a pair of Invader shoes over Super Mario kicks any day. That’s one of…
By Brian Crecente Published September 29, 2011 -
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Dead Island: The Kotaku Review
This is the part where I’d try to artfully describe how I meticulously took apart a zombie with an electrified fire axe on a pristine beach, sky-blue waters lapping at my knees. I even took notes. I’d probably explain that on my second play-through of Dead Island I switched from the Xbox 360 button-pushing attacks…
By Brian Crecente Published September 16, 2011 -
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Resistance 3: The Kotaku Review
After the flawed Resistance 2, a game that drained the joy from the PlayStation 3’s once very promising shooter series, Insomniac Games comes closer to hitting its target with its third game set amongst the human-Chimera war. All it took to get Resistance 3 back on track was a bullet in the head. Gone completely…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 16, 2011 -
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine: The Kotaku Review
Relic Entertainment's made one of the best Warhammer games ever
By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2011 -
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Tell Us About the Official Wireless PlayStation 3 Headset, PoweredByHentai
Warning: Today’s Speak Up on Kotaku might send you to your local video game retailer with $100 in hand, as commenter PoweredByHentai goes hands-on with Sony’s recently-released wireless PlayStation 3 headset. So my Sony wireless headset for the PS3 arrived at my house this morning. It has a built-in rechargeable battery that is charged up…
By Mike Fahey Published September 12, 2011 -
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The Flex-Fire Is PlayStation Move Shooting, But with a Bender
We are about a year into hardcore shooter gaming played with the PlayStation Move—an experience that, from day one, is assumed to demand one play it with something that resembles a rifle, without ever asking if we really should. This is partly because of how different turning, looking, and aiming become when using a rifle…
By Owen Good Published September 9, 2011 -
ReviewsMadden NFL 12: The Kotaku Review
As the NFL lockout dragged all of the spring and much of the summer, Madden NFL 12 figured to be the only football coming to your TV this year, until a month before its release. From its conception, the game was meant to be a salve for the hurting hardcore fan, not a song for…
By Owen Good Published September 6, 2011 -
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The Rockus 3D 2.1 Speaker System Sounds Nice, But At What Cost?
When one thinks of quality computer speakers, several names come to mind: Logitech, Altec Lansing, Bose, and Creative Labs, to name a few. Soundscience isn’t a name that comes to mind. Neither is Antec. In fact, when one thinks of the name Antec, they think PC cases and power supplies. Hit up the company’s Wikipedia…
By Mike Fahey Published September 5, 2011